Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.p.

Google Inc.

Todd Poynor

Mathias Marc Agopian

Jeff Brown

A method and system for boosting a clock frequency for a processor in a mobile device based on user interface (UI) demand are described. In response to a user interaction through a UI in the mobile device, a vertical synchronization pulse request is made by an application and an indication of such request can be provided to a governor. The governor can adjust a clock frequency of a processor in the mobile device based on the generated indication. The processor can be a central processing unit or a graphics processing unit. The clock frequency can be boosted to a higher frequency to increase the processing capabilities of the mobile device to handle the computational requirements of the user interaction. Some time after boosting the clock frequency of the processor, the governor can return to normal operations in which the clock frequency scaling is typically based on a measured system load.

Processor boost based on user interface demand

Method and apparatus for debugging an operating system kernel. A server data processing system includes a debugger control component and a network interface card that implements a protocol stack, including layers from a physical layer through an application layer. The network interface card further includes a debugger network component. Debugger control messages received by the network interface card are directed to the debugger network component. The debugger network component communicates the debugger messages to the debugger control component in the kernel, and the debugger control component performs debugging operations in response to the debugger messages.

Debugging an operating system kernel with debugger support in a network interface card

A system and method for differentiating private and shared files is disclosed. The invention includes the steps of: receiving a request from a computer for access to a shared file; providing the computer with access to a computer specific private copy of the shared file, if the private copy already exists; and creating the computer specific private copy of the shared file for the computer to access, if the private copy does not already exist and if write access to the shared file is requested.

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Cupertino, CA, United States of America

Todd Poynor